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Vanity (1870)

Auguste Toulmouche was a French painter known for his luxurious portraits of Parisian women.

Auguste Toulmouche was born in Nantes to Émile Toulmouche, a well-to-do broker, and Rose Sophie Mercier. He studied drawing and sculpture locally with the sculptor Amédée Ménard and painting with the portraitist Biron before moving to Paris in 1846 to study with the painter Charles Gleyre. He was said to be one of Gleyre's favored students, and he exhibited his first paintings at the Paris Salon in 1848 when he was just 19. He exhibited again in 1849 and 1850, by which time he has begun to specialize in portraits.

Toulmouche painted in an idealizing version of the dominant academic realist style, and his subjects were frequently Parisian women who belonged to the upper bourgeoisie. His work was popular in both France and America, and the emperor Napoleon III bought one of his portraits, La fille (The Girl), for his future empress Eugénie in 1852, with further purchases by the imperial family the following year confirming Toulmouche's status as a fashionable painter. He

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Vanity is an 1870 genre painting by French artist Auguste Toulmouche who specialized in painting luxurious paintings of Paris’s upper class. The painting is in a private collection.

Analysis of Toulmouche’s Vanity

Here we see a young wealthy young woman wrapped up in a moment of self-adoration as a modern female Narcissus kisses her reflection. Toulmouche primarily painted high-society portraits but, in this instance, he painted a moralistic piece.

Auguste Toulmouche’s version of extreme Realism in his genre paintings proved extremely popular in America and Europe, with one of his works being bought by Emperor Napoleon III.

The fine realistic details and a sumptuous interior, when seen in combination with the fact that the artist around this time joined in the military defense against the Prussian invasion, are a bitter counterpoint. Perhaps they reveal a negative social commentary on a blinkered upper-class Parisian society.

Auguste Toulmouche and Realism

Auguste Toulmouche was a French painter who lived from 1829 to 1890 and made significant contributions to the movement o

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French artist Auguste Toulmouche (1829 – 1890) loved to tell stories. But instead of putting quill to paper, he put brush to canvas.

His paintings share the academic style of the Académie des Beaux-Arts that dominated French art in the mid 19th century.

Playing in Toulmouche’s favor was a trend that lent itself to storytelling—a move towards greater idealism. Although painted in the mid-Victorian era, his themes were often set in the Regency revival and late Georgian periods.

Let us examine 12 paintings from Albert Toulmouche … and the stories they tell.

With the prevalence of mobile technology today, it is very hard for us to imagine a time when people relied on letters as their primary means of communication across distance.

Dropping the envelope at her feet, this beautiful lady was obviously keen to open the letter from her lover in a hurry.

Moving near the light of the window, she remains standing. If it were bad news, would she be so hasty?

The letter probably has sweet words for her eyes only—and her corner position in the room giv